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Ideas for 'Queries to the 'Opticks'', 'Discipline and Punish' and 'A Subject with No Object'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 1. Modal Logic

9924	Modal logic gives an account of metalogical possibility, not metaphysical possibility [Burgess/Rosen]
	Full Idea: If you want a logic of metaphysical possibility, the existing literature was originally developed to supply a logic of metalogical possibility, and still reflects its origins.
	From: JP Burgess / G Rosen (A Subject with No Object [1997], II.B.3.b)
	A reaction: This is a warning shot (which I don't fully understand) to people like me, who were beginning to think they could fill their ontology with possibilia, which could then be incorporated into the wider account of logical thinking. Ah well...